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Study: Pycnogenol Helps Relieve Symptoms of Restless Legs Syndrome
New scientific findings may offer hope and a natural solution to those who suffer from sensations of crawling, pulling, throbbing, aching and itching in the legs, often resulting in sleep disruption and the uncontrollable urge to move. Restless legs syndrome (RLS) impacts nearly 10 percent of the U.S. population and can lead to other health ...
Study Finds Potential for B Vitamins to Treat Advanced Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore have uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease—and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process, the scientists stated. These findings could help people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, an umbrella term for a range of ...
NPA, CRN Respond to Research Showing Supplements With Banned Ingredients are Still on the Market
A study recently published in JAMA by Pieter A. Cohen, MD; Bharathi Avula, PhD; and Kumar Katragunta, PhD, et al, has found that supplements with banned ingredients are still on the market despite the companies having received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The study stated that “Some dietary supplements are adulterated ...
The Eye of the Beholder: Vision Health in 2022
What can supplement retailers expect in the vision health segment now? When getting up in the morning, most people take for granted the sights around them. Seeing the alarm clock, the tree swaying outside one’s window or the cat at the end of the bed are just everyday occurrences. That isn’t the case for a ...
NOW Named Elite Winner of Chicago’s Best & Brightest Companies to Work For
NOW Foods (Bloomingdale, IL) has been recognized for the 15th consecutive year as one of Chicago’s Best & Brightest Companies to Work For. This year is NOW’s first time being honored as an Elite Winner in the Employee Achievement and Recognition category. Fourteen Elite Chicago area companies were honored for demonstrating exceptionally innovative human resource ...
COVID-19 Patients Show Increased Levels of Oxidative Stress and Oxidant Damage, and Glutathione Deficiency
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX) have investigated the effect of infection with COVID-19 on the levels of oxidative stress, oxidant damage and glutathione, the most abundant physiological antioxidant. Compared to healthy age-matched individuals whose samples were taken before the pandemic started in 2019, patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had significantly increased levels of oxidative ...
VR Coronavirus Survey Shows Zinc Is Top-Seller During Pandemic;
Health Food Stores Face Significant Business Challenges Due To COVID-19
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year along with the resulting “shelter at home” and “social distancing” orders for U.S. citizens, health and natural food retailers have experienced (and reacted to) many challenges to their ability to service customers—and for some stores serious threats to the survival of their businesses. While natural ...
Nature’s Way Adopts Botanicals Through ABC’s Education Program
The American Botanical Council (ABC) acknowledges the support of Nature’s Way for ABC’s Adopt-an-Herb program. Nature’s Way, a supplement manufacturer and member of the Schwabe Group, has adopted five herbs on ABC HerbMedPro database: black cohosh (Actaea racemosa), hawthorn (Crataegus spp.), umckaloabo (Pelargonium sidoides), lavender (Lavandula spp.), and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba). Nature’s Way’s adoptions ensure ...
NOW Partners with GrassrootsHealth to Fund Prenatal Vitamin D Project
Illinois-based NOW, a family-owned manufacturer of dietary supplements, has provided more than $100,000 in funding and vitamin D supplements to support Protect Our Children NOW!, a two-year grassroots prenatal Vitamin D project to improve birth outcomes and combat increased health care costs associated with vitamin D deficiency in utero. The pilot program, spearheaded by GrassrootsHealth, an ...
Institute of Medicine’s Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research
Acute and chronic pain affects large numbers of Americans, with approximately 100 million U.S. adults burdened by chronic pain alone. The annual national economic cost associated with chronic pain is estimated to be $560-635 billion. Pain is a uniquely individual and subjective experience that depends on a variety of biological, psychological, and social factors, and ...
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